The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1887-06-15
Signed by Gov. Beaver Since Our
Last Report.


NEW LAWS
| Signed by Gov. Beaver Since Our
Last Report.
Permitting the stockholders of corporations
to determine the number of directors and the
time for holding annual elections Of officers;
supplement to an act OF April 4, 1865 author
! izing the formation and regulation Of rail-
road corporations, giving companies the
| power to elevate or ,lepress their lines thro
cities upon consent Of councils amending
the first section of an act supplemental to an
act concerning the sale of railroads, canals,
tnrnpikes, bridges and plank roads. approx
ed April ), 1861, extending the provisions Of
said act to coal, iron, steel, lumber or oil,
or mining manufacturing, transportation or
I telegraph companies in this commonwealth,
and extending said act 50 as 70 embrace all
sales made under and by virtue Of power
to sell contained in any mortgage or deed of
| trust without any process or decree Of court
in the premises to determine the amount Of
the capital stock and bonds to be issued
therefor and to issue certificates of stock and
bonds, and secure the same by mortgage or
mortgages on the property 50 purchased !,
supplement 10 an act to incorporate the
Pennsylvania training school for idiotic and
I Predetermined children, authorizing the di-
rectors to retain the pupils for whom the
| limit of seven years is not found sufficient
until they are considered fit to be diseharg
ed from the Institution authorizing the APP
| pointment Of deputy county surveyors 10
protect the rights of shareholders in proper
/ " and stocks of corporations This Is the
Erie eScheat bili.l Relating TO corporations
| and estates held for corporate. religious and
charitable uses authorizing the condemna-
| ton of turnpike roads or highways to pay
the commissioners for locating boundary
monuments between New York and Penn
sylvania extending the provisions Of the
thirty-fourth section of the corporation act
of April -. 1874. TO fuel companies, giving
them the right OF eminent domain.
| To authorize the Adjutant General TO sup
ply the Grand Army posts and Sons of Vet
Grams within the Stale with such arms and
! accoutrements not necessary for the equip
meut of the National Guard Supplemental TO
the act of June II, 1879, regulating boroughs
and providing for the adjustment of indebt-
edness and the government of boroughs,
townships and school districts affected by
changes of the limits of any borough in the
State prohibiting the employment of any
children under II years of ageby any person.
company, association or corporation 10 do
any work in any mill manufactory or mine
or any work pertaining thereto for the en-
eouragement of forest culture and providing
penalties for injury to and destruction of the
forest amending the supplement TO an act
limiting the time during which a judgment
shall be a lien on real estate or suits may be
brought against the suretieS of public OFF,
GERS relative TO the settlement of certain
military claims TO Pennsylvania soldiers to
repeal an act 10 authorize boroughs to con-
tract for the payment of ali taxes upon lands;
providing the manner of collecting claims
where liens have been filed against the real
estate of the employer; to provide for the
incorporation of accident companies on the
assessment plan making appropriation for
monument over the grave of Corporal Rial
appropriation for monument over the grave
of Governor Thomas Miiflin relating to hus-
band and wife-defining the rights and pow
er over their property, 10 make conveyances
and contracts and defining the interest Of
husband and wife in the estate of each other
by will or otherwise supplement TO the act
70 accept grant of public lands and making
appropriations for the purpose of carrying
the same into effect
Appropriations 10 Norrstown hospital. ex-
eept as 10 the so 900 for additional furniture
and equipments, on account of uncertainty
as to the revenue and because the price at
present paid for the maintenance of patients
should provide fund for such purposes.
Making appropriations TO the Homeopath-
ic hospital, PittSburg, except as to $4,000 for
liquidating balance Of Indebtedness Disap-
proved because ofuncertainty of revenue and
because the state should not assume indebt-
edness of private institutions.
Making appropriation 10 Pennsylvania I
home for blind women except item Of 5000 |
for completion of buildings. disepproved (
because of excess Of appropriations over rev
enue.
Making appropriation for the Medico Chi
rurgical hospital; Philadelphia, except s25,- 1
0a0 for lsss, striking ont half the appropria-
ton because of lack of revenue,
Making appropriation TO the Allegheny
general hospital, except $4,000 for paying
mortgage ON account of lack of revenue.
Making appropriation to Lackawana hos
pital. at Scranton. except item of sl2,5o0 for /
completing and furnishing buildings, owing /
to lack of revenue
Making apprC ,jriatiOn 10 Western Penn I
sylvania institution for deaf and dumb. ex- 4
cept 5000 for laundry and Kitchen because
economy is necessary in the state expendi-
lures.
Appropriation TO Pennsylvania training |
school for feeble-minded children, except \
$4,000 for 1857 to be used for the erection
and completion of building for epileptic
children
Appropriation for celebrating the centen-
NAL anniversary Of the constitution. except /
the item of $4,000 to be expended by the
governor and legislature in entertaining !
guests from other states, because the revenue i
of the state viii not justify 10 large an APP
preparation, and there should be no divided !
responsibility in the expenditure.
To confirm the boundry lines between this
commonwealth and New Jersey, Ohio and /
West Virginia 10 authorize registers ofwills /
and orphans courts to require security for /
costs and TO apportion costs in cases of cav
eats and appeals authorizing companies in
corporated under the laws of any other state
for the establishment and maintenance Of
ferries in this commonwealth TO erect piers.
ETC.; to enable the citizens of the United /
States and corporations charted under the /
laws of this commonwealth authorized to
hold real estate to hold and convey title
which had been held by alien corporations
not authorized by Law to hold the same; to